Since
just before the election of Barack Obama in November, it has been interesting
and quite shocking that a forty-year old, seemingly forgotten radical
group called “Weatherman” is getting so much attention.
Of course, Obama denies any connection to old Weathermen. Here’s
a quick history of the “Weathermen” and why it’s relevant
to a new president calling for an undefined “change.”

You’ve
heard the famous names: Bill Ayres, Mark Rudd, Bernadine Dohrn and Jeff
Jones, among others. Today, Ayres describes himself as a professor;
Dohrn is his wife and a clinical law professor, Jeff Jones, predictably
is an environmentalist and political consultant, and Mark Rudd is now
a teacher. Just normal Americans, living their lives. Really?

In
1962, Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) was born. It was a radical
organization of college students. SDS quickly became the opposition
to the Viet Nam War. They organized demonstrations on college campuses
across the nation to mobilize students to take “direct action”
against “racism, poverty and war.” In 1963, SDS got involved
in “community organizing”, teaming up with the Black Panthers,
the Hispanic Young Lords, and other radical organizations.

By
1966, SDS was moving in a revolutionary Marxist direction. Their demonstrations
and marches became violent clashes with police, many turning into riots.
About the same time, SDS was joined by the Progressive Labor Party (PL),
a self-styled Marxist-Leninist-Maoist party, dedicated to implementing
communist ideology.

By
1969, a majority of SDS found the PL’s strict Marxist ideology
too restraining, hurting organizing and recruiting efforts. At the same
time, SDS leaders were looking for a more long-term agenda to bring
about a communist revolution in the United States. Simply fighting the
war was too limiting. In June 1969, SDS held a raucous convention in
which the PL was tossed out of SDS and a new faction took control. That
faction was called “Weatherman.” It issued a long, rambling
manifesto detailing the future direction of the movement. The document
was entitled “You Don’t Need A Weatherman To Know Which
Way The Wind Blows.” The title was taken from a Bob Dylan song.

The
manifesto detailed Weatherman ideology and the means to create a Marxist
revolution in “Amerika.” Some of its chapter titles include:
“The Struggle for Socialist Self-Determination;” “Black
Liberation Means Revolution;” “Anti-Imperialist Revolution
and The United Front;” “The Revolutionary Youth Movement
– Class Analysis;” and “Repression and Revolution.”
The document called for a class war against America’s free market
society. It talked of joining up with Marxist revolutions around the
world, in China, in Cuba, and more. It called for the creation of a
“Revolutionary Party.” Above all, it called for war against
what Weatherman called “Amerika.”

Why
is that significant today? Because the authors of the document were
the leaders of Weatherman – Mark Rudd, Bill Ayres, Bernadine Dohrn,
Jeff Jones, and others. Weatherman’s first public act was what
it called “Days of Rage.” It called on students to leave
their classrooms and engage in three days of violence and street demonstrations.
They smashed windows of businesses and cars, and attacked police lines.
Mark Rudd himself was arrested in Chicago while leading the violence.
The result of the three days of violence was 287 people arrested, 800
automobiles and 600 windows were smashed. The combined bail was over
$2 million.

In
spite of the damage, Weatherman was disappointed with the turn out of
demonstrators. They had hoped to bring thousands to the streets, rather
than the three to five hundred who turned out. Mark Rudd and the other
Weathermen concluded that white people weren’t ready to engage
in revolution, as did their “black brothers” in the Black
Panthers. To win, decided the Weathermen, whites had to share some of
the cost of revolution by “picking up the gun.” To not do
so was racist, they believed.

That
decision led Weatherman leaders Ayres, Dohrn, Rudd and Jones to make
the decision to declare war on “Imperialist Amerika” by
going underground to foster direct violence against the state. They
then became known as the “Weather Underground.”

During
their reign of terror, the Weather Underground bombed corporate headquarters,
burned ROTC buildings on college campuses, and even planted a bomb in
the US Capitol building. They used anti-personnel bombs filled with
nails, staples and other shrapnel designed to hurt and kill people.
Several of those bombs were planted in police stations resulting in
the murder of Police Sgt. Brian McDonnell in San Francisco; another
officer was permanently maimed and two others were injured in that attack.
A police informant, Larry Grathwohl, who working inside the Weather
Underground, reported that Bill Ayres planned the bombing and Bernadine
Dohrn planted it. There were more such bombings in other cities. Later,
Mark Rudd was the sole survivor of a bomb explosion that went off as
he was building it in a Weather Underground safe house in New York.
That bomb and more were to be placed in a dance hall at the Fort Dix
Army base. They would have killed hundreds of soldiers and their dates.

As
they engaged in their revolution, the Underground would, from time to
time issue “Communiques,” much like Osama Bin Laden does
today, to send messages to followers. In “Communique #1 From the
Weather Underground,” it reads, in part, “Hello. This is
Bernadine Dohrn. I’m going to read A DECLARATION OF A STATE OF
WAR” (emphasis hers). In the document she warned, “Within
the next fourteen days we will attack a symbol or institution of Amerikan
injustice.” It was issued on May 21, 1970.

On
June 9, 1970, came “Communique #2 From The Weather Underground.”
It reported, “Tonight at 7 PM, we blew up the N.Y.C. police headquarters….
The pigs in this country are our enemies…. The time is now. Political
power grows out of a gun, a Molotov, a riot, a commune…and from
the soul of the people.”

There’s
much more to the history of violence and revolution pulled off or attempted
by Ayres, Rudd, Dohrn and Jones (and others in their clan). But these
examples should give anyone enough of an idea as to their dedication
to destroying America.

But
what does that have to do with today? And how does it connect
to Barack Obama? The bad boys and girls of the Sixties like to portray
themselves as just some college kids that got a little carried away.
It’s in the past, says the news media. It has nothing to do with
today – or Barack Obama, say his supporters.

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It
is vital that Americans understand that these were dedicated revolutionaries
determined to destroy America, by violence if necessary. They used every
means possible to recruit America’s youth into their revolt. They
marched in the street, chanted pro Mao slogans, started riots, disrupted
schools, burned college buildings, and eventually bombed symbols of
the American establishment they hated, resulting in the deaths and maiming
of police officers sworn to protect it.

These
were not just over-active college kids. The agenda they followed sought
to destroy every aspect of American life. They hated private property
and wanted it all redistributed with no ownership – like the communes
they chose to live on. They hated free enterprise and wanted all business
run by the workers – no bosses, no owners. The only private business
they would tolerate were those run by individuals that hired no one.
They knew to achieve these things they had to start by changing the
history taught to a young generation in the schools. They hated religion
and wanted to run it out of the country. They hated the family unit,
saying it subjugated women, who should be liberated. They sought to
build divides between the rich and the poor, creating a class struggle
in America that really didn’t exist before. And they didn’t
hesitate to use violence to achieve their goals.

When
the violence failed, the Weatherman core and their followers didn’t
give up or fade away. They remained underground in a new way. They melded
into society, they took teaching positions in college to reach that
younger generation. They took jobs in the media to take control of its
message. They worked their way up in the hated corporations to gain
control of policy. And they surged into government at all levels, boring
into the core of America, to impose their agenda at every chance, from
the Federal government to state legislatures to city councils. Today,
for example, we have Congressman Bobby Seal, one of the infamous Chicago
Eight; State Senator Tom Haydon, the founder of the SDS and another
of the Chicago Eight.

It’s
interesting to note that a great number of the members of the “revolution”
went into the environmental movement. Unable to get Americans to outright
accept Marxist ideology in their revolution, instead they wrapped it
all in a nice green blanket of environmental protection. Ever since,
under the banner of environmental protection Americans have happily
tossed their liberties on the bon fire like a good old-fashioned book
burning. They accepted the premise that private property and business
must be controlled or destroyed, simply for the good of the environment.
It’s not just a happy coincidence. In this way, the revolution
of the sixties is now progressing at a rapid pace.

And
what of Ayres, Dorhn, Rudd and Jones?

Ayres
took the route into education as a professor. But that certainly hasn’t
replaced his activism for the cause of communism. Recently he traveled
to the new red Mecca, Venezuela, a nation quickly falling behind a new
red curtain of tyranny under Hugo Chavez. Ayres is influential enough
with the new American-hating dictator to meet with him and appear on
the same platform. There, Ayres proclaimed his support for “the
profound educational reforms underway here in Venezuela under the leadership
of President Chavez. We share this belief that education is the motor-force
of revolution… I look forward to seeing how you continue to overcome
the failings of capitalist education as you seek to create something
truly new and deeply humane…” Does it sound like Ayres has
changed a single stripe from his “college activist” days?

Mark
Rudd also went into education. He feels at home there, after all, he
is the man who shut down Columbia University with a student strike in
the Sixties. And he is still active in the cause. Recently, he turned
up making comments on a radical blog called Rag Blog, where he attempted
to calm nervous “progressives” (a new euphemism coined a
few years back to provide cover for those who didn’t want to be
called communists). The “Progressives were growing nervous by
the cabinet appointments Obama has been making. These people are so
radical that they actually consider Hillary Clinton to be from the right!
Of course keeping a bunch of old Clintonestas, not to mention a Bush
holdover like Secretary of Defense Gates, has caused great concern for
those who thought Obama was the answer to the revolution. Said Rudd,
the Obama appointments are part of a deliberate strategy to “feint
to the right” and “move left.” He said, “Any
other strategy invites sure defeat.” Rudd, to be sure, wants Obama
to be victorious in his goals. Now why would that be? Rudd is a dedicated
communist, yesterday, today and tomorrow, seeking to destroy the American
way of life.

Jones
is now a political consultant and a dedicated environmentalist. One
of his clients is the Natural Resources Defense Council, a radical environmental
group made up of some of the most radical and most vicious lawyers ever
assembled. Some on Capitol Hill have called them a street gang. They
are revolutionaries in suits. They intimidate companies with their lawsuits
and delight in suing the government to get their way. Their lawsuits
help stop the drilling of American oil and American logging, and more.
And when they win, they fill their coffers with taxpayer money as reimbursement
for their legal costs. It’s the proper place for a former underground
terrorist.

Dohrn
is Ayres’ wife. They went underground together in the old days
of the revolution. Today she continues to spread her brand of revolution
by reaching into the community of families as a clinical law professor
and director of the Children and Family Justice Center at Northwestern
University. She forces children’s rights today to create tomorrow’s
revolutionaries.

Still,
what is the Obama connection to these dedicated revolutionaries? It’s
perhaps ironic that all four former Weatherman terrorists today work
through an organization called “Movement for a Democratic Society.”
That organization is the parent to another one called “Progressives
for Obama.” They raised funds for Obama, they promoted his candidacy,
and they helped to recruit activists to support him.

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In
the past forty years, Ayres, Dorhn, Rudd, and Jones have not been heard
from in the mainstream media. They have not been an issue in a presidential
election. They have not openly promoted or supported a candidate, snubbing
even John Kerry and Bill and Hillary Clinton as not being revolutionary
enough for their agenda for the destruction of America. Until now –
until Barack Obama. These four are dedicated Marxist revolutionaries.
Why now? Why Obama? You don’t need a Weatherman to know why.

In the
past forty years, Ayres, Dorhn, Rudd, and Jones have not been heard from
in the mainstream media. They have not been an issue in a presidential
election. They have not openly promoted or supported a candidate, snubbing
even John Kerry and Bill and Hillary Clinton as not being revolutionary
enough for their agenda for the destruction of America.